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feather-headed | feather-heeled | feather-pated | feather-veined | featherbed | featherbedding | featherbone | featherbrained | feathered | featheredge | featheredged

featherbedding (root: featherbed)

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Noun
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feath=er=bed=ding

THESAURUS

featherbedding

bedizenment, duplication, duplication of effort, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, filling, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, luxury, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, unnecessariness, verbosity

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featherbedding

Inaction

N inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action, noninterference, nonintervention, Fabian policy, conservative policy, neglect, inactivity, rest, quiescence, want of occupation, inoccupation, idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce far niente, sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no-show job, soft snap, soft thing, not doing, not done, undone, passive, unoccupied, unemployed, out of employ, out of work, fallow, desaeuvre, re infecta, at a stand, les bras croisis, with folded arms, with the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back, pour passer le temps, Int, so let it be!, stop!, hands off!, cunctando restituit rem, If it ain't broke don't fix it, stare decisis, let the decision stand.


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